Shlort

Want to be even more mad? Depending on where you are in the country, these service garages at dealerships get anywhere from 90 to 120 dollars an hour for labor costs. The poor slob that replaced your headlight might make 15 bucks an hour and the dealership keeps the rest for overhead costs.

Anyone who would complain about people taking their cars and trucks to a non-dealer garage must not understand the logic behind doing so. Do I want to pay 35 bucks an hour for labor, or 95 bucks an hour for labor to get my headlight replaced?

I'd have take my righ elsewhere and got the job done for half or less. If these dealer garages want to be competitive and get people in the door, they need to stop charging 5 times for labor what they pay their labor.

BravesRock

This type of thing is happening more and more with cars, and it's not just Chevy. Both foreign and domestic automakers are making their cars harder for shade-tree mechanics. Part of the reason is fewer people have the time or inclination to do anything with their own cars. Also, there's so much technology under the hood that a lot of fixes require a trained mechanic with diagnostic equipment. But I also blame the automakers who see this as a cash cow in the years to come. The money dealerships take in through repairs like this makes up for the deep discounts they often have to give in order to make a sale.